Donka Ignjatović

The protagonist, interpreted by Ljuba Tadic, is a scientist in an institute who becomes a victim of the intrigues of his co-workers who took advantage of his once problematic participation in the Chetnik movement during the Second World War.

A one-act tragedy, the play is set at Inishmaan in the Aran Islands, and like all of Synge’s plays it is noted for capturing the poetic dialogue of rural Ireland. The plot is based not on the traditional conflict of human wills but on the hopeless struggle of a people against the impersonal.